{"id":31892,"date":"2015-07-04T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31892"},"modified":"2015-07-03T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T01:06:29","slug":"reason-tv-the-secret-scam-of-streetcars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/reason-tv-the-secret-scam-of-streetcars\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Reason.tv<\/em> &#8211; The Secret Scam of Streetcars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VpUQ_EMV23c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 1 Jul 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meet the Thighmaster of urban public policy: Streetcars.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal politicians all across the country have convinced themselves that this costly, clunky hardware can revitalize their flabby downtown economies.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the fearless leaders of America&#8217;s capital city. The DC government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade trying to erect a streetcar line in the up-and-coming neighborhood of H Street. The project has been an epic disaster, perfectly demonstrating how ill-suited streetcars are to modern urban life.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video above, or click below for downloadable versions. And subscribe to Reason TV&#8217;s YouTube channel for daily content like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 1 Jul 2015 Meet the Thighmaster of urban public policy: Streetcars. Municipal politicians all across the country have convinced themselves that this costly, clunky hardware can revitalize their flabby downtown economies. That includes the fearless leaders of America&#8217;s capital city. The DC government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,84,237,13],"tags":[156,1002,527,985],"class_list":["post-31892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-railways","category-usa","tag-fail","tag-lightrail","tag-publictransit","tag-washingtondc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8io","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31893,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31892\/revisions\/31893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}